Sheikh Ahmed Tijan Bah

Let me tell you a story I witnessed,
it's a true story about how I handle my business.

'Once upon a time
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Who is this guy in the mirror?
Why is he looking at me?
Why is he staring at me?
Why is he ogling at me?
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Assalamu Alaikum WaRahmatullahi WaBarakatuhu ukhti

You are so beautiful. You are so beautiful it hurts me that I don’t know you yet.
Who knows, I probably have never met you yet.
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Homesick

I am so homesick, I am not homesick anymore
I am so homesick, I am now sick of home
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It’s being a couple of months since the semester began
so it’s that time of the year again
sleepless nights, texts books and note binds
tensions rising, mass bunking in the name of self-studying
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My mummy traveled a lot on weekends
taking time to visit relatives and friends
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Love Before First Sight

I want you to fight my brother
Make sure you don’t surrender
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Now I guess ya'll already understand what I'm going to be saying to you, so I'm not going to recite to you a long poem that will end up boring you but I'll just pour out to you what I feel in me and probably you do too. This ain't no free style neither is it a wild style I'm just hoping to speak to you, for a just a little while.

Now I left home with hope and prayers from the pope and my hair combed to come to a different land to learn one, two, three and A, B, C, and may be add to that, the native Ek, Do, Tin and now that I am here, I've already established a home sweet home away from my mum's own home.
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Dear Big Black Jacket
I bought you all the way from Sarojini Market
From that dude with the bad breath
Hoping you can cover me like a blade is covered by a sheath
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This is a poem about my love, my very beautiful love, not much to say just read the poem and you'll know everything about my love and our relation ship... PEACE <3 :)


They say I have a problem and I need help
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I have a story to tell
No, I'm just kidding; I'm just looking for something to sell
And since what I do is poetry
Good merchandise would be a story
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We've being through a lot together,
From hot to stormy weather.
We agreed you were my brother,
From another mother.
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HAPPY 48th INDEPENDENCE GAMBIA

On this day 48 years ago,
Our then leaders agreed they were ready to takeover,
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From one 'Kalou' to another.

I was totally amazed travelling by bus today,
cruising through the slums of Delhi,
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God gave me something:
I am not good at everything;
but I do many many things.
I am not the best at anything;
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Two dreams never collide
But two lives always coincide

Two rainbows never show at once
But rain often falls in abundance
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*Something I wrote while on the Delhi Metro*

CONVERSATION WITH THE DEVIL
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In my part of the world Eid ul Fitr is tomorrow
but i have found myself in deep sorrow
I am not in sorrow because its eid
I am in sorrow because The Month of Months is going to leave.
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